Jean-Paul Aron
Jean-Paul Aron (27 May 1925 – 20 August 1988) was a French writer, philosopher and journalist.[1] His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984.
Life
[edit]Aron was born in Strasbourg. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault in the early 1950s, before a falling out over a lover.[2] He was, like Foucault, an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS,[3] and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease. During his lifetime, he published several historical works that examined middle-class social practices. He is buried at 6, rue du Repos in Paris.
Selected publications
[edit]Novels and plays
[edit]- La Retenue (novel) Grasset, 1962
- Point mort (novel) Grasset, 1964
- Le Bureau (play), 1970
- Fleurets mouchetés (play), 1970
- Les Voisines (play), 1980
Non-fiction
[edit]- Essai sur la sensibilité alimentaire à Paris au XIXe siècle, Armand Colin, 1967
- Philosophie zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (presentation by Jean-Paul Aron), 10/18, 1968
- Essai d'épistémologie biologique, Christian Bourgois, 1969
- Anthropologie du conscrit français (with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Paul Dumont), Mouton, 1972
- Le Mangeur du XIXe siècle, Laffont, 1973
- translated into English as The Art of Eating in France: Manners and Menus in the Nineteenth Century. London: Peter Davies, 1975; New York: Harper & Row, 1976
- Qu’est-ce que la culture française?, Denoël-Gonthier, 1975
- Le Pénis et la démoralisation de l’Occident (with Roger Kempf), Grasset, 1978
- Misérable et glorieuse, la femme du XIXe siècle (animated and presented by Jean-Paul Aron), Fayard, 1980
- Les Modernes, Gallimard, 1984
References
[edit]- ^ "Jean-Paul Aron, 62, Writer, Philosopher". Newsday. 22 August 1988. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
- ^ Macey, David (1993). The Lives of Michel Foucault. London: Hutchinson. p. 48.
- ^ "Mon sida, par Jean-Paul Aron". Le Nouvel Observateur (in French). Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
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